Resources and Publications

Asthma Publications

This easy-to-read booklet is perfect for teachers, coaches, and families who want to help students with asthma take part in sports and physical activities. Discusses how to help students control their asthma and follow an asthma action plan. Also explains how to manage asthma triggers, ensure students have access to their asthma medicines, recognize worsening asthma symptoms and take action, and modify activities based on a child's asthma status. Includes sample asthma action plans and information about using a peak flow meter, metered-dose inhaler, and dry powder inhaler.

The purpose of the Asthma Care Quick Reference Guide is to improve the quality of care and outcomes for people who have asthma by providing health care providers with the tools and information they need to carry out each of the key steps in appropriately diagnosing, treating, and providing long-term follow-up to people with asthma. Its streamlined easy-use format provides condensed charts and bulleted lists that present a detailed yet readable summary of the current clinical recommendations from the Expert Panel Report 3: Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma, along with practical tips for educating patients.

These easy-to-read guides are perfect for patients, caregivers, educators, and health care professionals. Step-by-step tip sheets provide instructions for proper use and cleaning of common asthma devices, including dry powder inhalers, metered-dose inhalers with spacers, nebulizers, and peak flow meters. Additionally, an informative guide to asthma triggers describes ways to reduce exposure to triggers, including indoor and outdoor allergens and irritants. These resources are printable and patient-friendly, which makes them an essential addition to any asthma resource library.Also available in Spanish.

This guide provides the latest information on asthma management. In an easy-to-read format, it describes asthma symptoms, the latest treatments, and ways to monitor and keep your asthma under control. It also offers tools and step-by-step guidance for monitoring your asthma, using a peak flow meter, controlling your triggers, taking your medicines, and communicating with your health care professionals to make asthma management a part of your everyday life. The guide also offers an asthma action plan, an asthma assessment checklist, and a list of information resources to learn more about asthma.

NACI Publications

Who can make the difference between a life controlled by asthma, and a life where asthma is under control? This 12-page booklet provides anyone with an interest in asthma with an action guide built around the NACI's 6 priority action messages that will enable patients to manage their care, clinicians to treat their asthma patients effectively, and others to contribute to the effort to better manage asthma.

A 2-page summary of the National Asthma Control Initiative (NACI). The NACI is an initiative to engage diverse stakeholders who are concerned about or involved in improving asthma control. Its ultimate aim is to bring the asthma care that patients receive in line with evidence-based recommendations from two reports published by the NAEPP: the Expert Panel Report 3 and its companion Guidelines Implementation Panel Report. The NACI is bringing together organizations to share best practices, pool and direct resources, and identify new directions and learning opportunities.

An expanded summary of how the NACI is bringing together organizations from local, state, regional, and national levels so that they can share best practices, pool and direct resources, and identify new directions and learning opportunities.